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B. W. EAMES.

' OILER FOR EEGIPROGATING ENGINES.

Patented June 2, I891.

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WITNESSES:

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RYLAND IVALTER EAMES, OF DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES H. BROIVN, OF SAME PLACE.

OILER FOR RECIPROCATING ENGINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,580, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed June 12, 1889. Serial No. 313,980. (No IliOdBl-l To all whom it may concern: at the top by a bridge II, and therewith con- Be it known that I, RYLAND IVALTER stitute a support for two oil-cups I I, which EAMES, a citizen of the United States, residing are mounted on said bridge and are provided at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and with dripping-tubes through which the 111- 5 5 5 State of Colorado, have invented a certain bricant gradually escapes into oscillating renew and useful Oiler for Reciprocating Enceivers Q, hereinafter described. gines, of which the following is a specifica- Preferably inserted in the strap of the contion. necting-rod E, at the cross-head, is a short My invention has relation to improvement tube J, which supports a joint K, through 6o in that class of oilers for the movable journals which the lubricant is conveyed to the diiferof reciprocating engines in which the lubrient journals. cant is conveyed from a stationary oil-cup to The joint K, which for the purpose of this the movable journals by means of telescoping spccification,is called thedistributing-joint, conveying-tubes. may be of any desired form, as a ball or 65 The objects of my invention are to prouniversal joint, butis preferably made as duce more complete and perfect devices for shown. in Figs. 3 and 4, in which the tube J conveying the lubricant to the journals and terminates in atransverse tube, constituting, to provide a distributing-joint between the substantially, a T-union, in the transverse stationary oil-cups and the movable journals, part of which is a short shaft'j, provided with 70 whereby several journals maybe simultanecentral longitudinal oil-passages extending ously fed from the same cup. inward from each end and radial oil-passages To the aforesaid objects my invention conuniting therewith from the outer and inner sists of the peculiar and novel construction, ends and connected as hereinafter described. combination, and arrangement of parts here- Caps 7]: 7c fit on the ends of the shaft I j, where 75 inafter described,and then specifically pointthey are held by a spring L and serve to ed out in the claims, reference being had to close the longitudinal oil-passages and conthe accompanying drawings, forming a part of stitute a part of the distributing-valve. The this specification. innerradial oil-passages register,respectively,

In the accompanying drawings, in which with the tube J and a pipe M, fitted with a 80 3o similarletters of reference indicatelike parts, stuffing-box 7a and connected with the oil- Figure l is a side elevation of a part of a recup N in the strap of the connecting-rod E. ciprocating engine with my improved device The outer radial ports register with openings connected with the cross-head and crankin the caps 70, in which. are inserted pipes P. wrist; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of Inside the pipes are fitted and arranged to 85 3 5 the same at the line a: Figs. 3 and l, enlarged slide smaller pipes P, each bearing at its updetails of the distributing-joint hereinafter per end a cup Q, pivotally supported below more fully described, and Fig. 5 a modification the oil-cups I by screws or analogous devices, of the rocking drip-cup hereinafter described. which enter brackets h, attached to the bridge Referring to these drawings, A is a part of II. By this arrangement the lubricant flow- 9o 40 the housing of a reciprocating engine, on ing from the cups I falls into the cups Q, and which are mounted guides for the cross-head thence passes to the distributing-joint and D, and in which is j ournaledin suitable bearfrom that through the tubes J and M to the ings a shaft bearing the disk-wheel B, projournals to be lubricated. vided with the wrist-pin C, connected with Instead of the telescoping tubes P P, the 95 the cross'head by the connecting rod E. tube 1 may connect directly with the cup Q, Mounted on the housing A, and preferably and the pivotal screws of the latter rest in intermediate of the stroke of the cross-head vertical slots in the brackets h, as shown in D, are two hollow posts F, which connect with Fig. 5, thereby permitting the same extenthe interior of the guides, and each of which sion. and retraction. due to the stroke of the I00 bears an oil-cup G to supply oil to said guides engine as in the other construction, the one and cross head. The posts F are united being regarded as an equivalent of the other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination, with a fiXedoil-cup, of a distributing-joint connected with said oil- 5 cup by an extensible tube, said distributingjoint being provided with two or more tubes to convey the lubricant simultaneously to dif ferent journals, substantially as shown and described. to 2. In an oiler for reciprocating engines, the

herein-described distributing-joint, consisting of the pipe J, having a chamber to receive the shaftj, and a side opening for the pipe M, the shaft j, having radial and longitudinal oil-passages, caps k, and spring L, said 15 radial passages communicating with the pipe M and oil-passage in the pipe J, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand.

RYLAND WALTER EAMES. In presence of- H. H. BROWN, Y J. H. NIoHoLs. 

